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Title: Aztec Land

Author: Maturin M. Ballou

Release Date: August 21, 2009 [EBook #29747]

Language: English

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By Maturin M. Ballou.

AZTEC LAND. A new Book. Crown 8vo, $1.50.

THE NEW ELDORADO. A Summer Journey to Alaska.
Crown 8vo, $1.50.

DUE WEST; or, ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN MONTHS.
Crown 8vo, $1.50.

DUE SOUTH; or, CUBA PAST AND PRESENT. Crown 8vo,
$1.50.

UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS; or, TRAVELS IN AUSTRALASIA.
Crown 8vo, $1.50.

DUE NORTH; or, GLIMPSES OF SCANDINAVIA AND RUSSIA.
Crown 8vo, $1.50.

GENIUS IN SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. Crown 8vo, $1.50.

EDGE-TOOLS OF SPEECH. Selected and edited by Mr.
BALLOU. 8vo, $3.50.

A TREASURY OF THOUGHT. An Encyclopaedia of Quotations.
8vo, full gilt, $3.50.

PEARLS OF THOUGHT. 16mo, full gilt, $1.25.

NOTABLE THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN. Crown 8vo,
$1.50.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY,
BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

AZTEC LAND

BY

MATURIN M. BALLOU

The dust is old upon my sandal-shoon,
And still I am a pilgrim.

N. P. WILLIS.

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1890

Copyright, 1890,
BY MATURIN M. BALLOU.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company

PREFACE.

Having resolved to visit Mexico, the question first to be considered was
how to do so in the most advantageous manner. Repairing to the office of
Messrs. Raymond & Whitcomb, in Boston, after a brief consultation with
those experienced organizers of travel, the author handed the firm a
check for the cost of a round trip to Mexico and back. On the following
day he took his seat in a Pullman parlor car in Boston